Doing research about someone who is successful will help us obtain success like

him/her by learning the advantages of him/her or knowledge from him/her. Thus, we research
a professor in my department, which will make us get more familiar with my academic
discipline.

Jim Hsieh devotes himself to the finance field, especially for corporate finance and
investment. Now, he is working as an Associate Professor of Finance at George Mason
University. Dr. Jim finished his Ph.D in Finance at the Ohio State University. And he
received his M.S in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University, B.S. in
Management Science from National Chiao Tung University and MBA in Finance and
Corporate Accounting from University of Rochester. Its obvious that Dr. Hsieh has
determined to do something related to finance in his early years. Thus he well planned his
study career when he was a student. It suggests that if we dream of being a scholar, we are
required to have a rich foundation of knowledge. And we must made long-term study goals as
early as possible.

In addition, Dr. Hsieh already publishes about five papers in his finance area and also
has plenty of working papers and works in progress. The journals that published his papers
were top referred journals in his field, including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of
Banking and Finance and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. These journals are
academic journals covering theoretical and empirical topics in financial economics, and we
can know that Dr. Hsieh really focus on the theories and facts in the financial areas. Besides,
the research of Dr. Hsieh is mainly about stock market and investor behaviors. His research
interests are restructuring policy, payout policy, informed trading, short sales, analyst
forecasts and recommendations. It shows that a scholar is someone who is specialized in a

specific field and able to provide his/her own new professional views. This requires him/her
to be able to publish research in academic journals.

Furthermore, he is really active in many different accounting associations, such as

American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, and Financial Management
Association. And he participates in committees for Ralph Walkling (Chair), Jean Helwege,
Karen Wruck. It is essential to take part in an academic committee because in an academic
committee, we will have a chance to be acquainted with other scholars in our fields and we
could learn much from each other.

To conclude, the reason why we choose Professor Hsieh in my research of our academic
area attributes to his efforts to the finance economic, investment, and stock market. Also,
after reading his research, we would have new perspective views to understand accounting.
Besides, in the future, we will handle and record many different investment transactions from
the customers. Thus, mastering the knowledge of finance will be beneficial to our future
work.

Reference
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jhsieh